Unit 5 Review

Unit 5 Review Old Immigrants – Northern & Western Europe (Germany, Ireland) New Immigrants – Southern & Eastern Europe, Asia – difficult assimilation Need for cheap labor – Open policy, no restrictions Nativism – Belief in American superiority; anti-immigrant

Unit 5 Review Gentlemen’s Agreement – 1907; No new Japanese immigration Chinese Exclusion Act – 1882; No new Chinese immigration 1920’s immigration laws – Limit # of immigrants from S&E Europe – Red Scare Know Nothing Party – Anti-immigrant

Unit 5 Review Latin America – Most recent Illegal Immigrants – Mexico – still a problem Seneca Falls – Mtg. for women’s rights The Feminine Mystique – Careers for women – new women’s movement Title IX (9) Equality for women in athletics

Unit 5 Review 19th amendment – Women right to vote (suffrage) Susan B. Anthony – Push for women’s suffrage Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Earnings gap – Has improved, but men still make more Trail of Tears – Jackson ignores Worcester v. Georgia

Unit 5 Review Indian Wars 1860 – 1890 End of Native American resistance – Wounded Knee massacre Dawes Act – Attempt to “Americanize” natives – fails American Frontier Shifting area of pioneer settlement Homestead Act - Free land given to Western settlers

Reservations – Indians can use tribal language, customs, religion Unit 5 Review Reservations – Indians can use tribal language, customs, religion